"Khitan Han people? Are there Yan people?" Now it is the moment when we are about to go to war with the Khitan. Huang Jinbiao suddenly brought such a message, which made Xu Ping feel a little unresponsive. Civil war is different from foreign wars. Civil war is just like their own people everywhere, so of course they can obtain a wide range of sources of intelligence. Foreign wars are different. One is that they are easily deceived, and the other is that they will face moral dilemma. While making the people of their country loyal to the country and the court, they will be motivated to oppose the opponent, and their thoughts are not easy to unify.

In the northwest, Xu Ping regarded the battle against Dangxiang as a civil war in the Song Dynasty, which was to fundamentally solve this dilemma. Anyone who opposed Dangxiang, no matter what his identity, was always devoted to the court. Since it was a civil war, anyone who opposed Yuanhao would not be with the thief and would not be morally pressured. This method of fighting against the Khitan would not be easy to use. It must be a foreign war. Xu Ping had to try to avoid using the other party's personnel. Collecting intelligence was also a method of using the Song people through inquiries and analysis.

This dilemma has always existed in history. While using surrendered generals, they look down on surrendered generals. The dynasties after the Song Dynasty were particularly prominent. Without the banner of internationalism and imperialism, without the high gods, and without the class struggle across the nation and the country, there would be no justice to instigate enemy personnel's behavior.

Seeing that Xu Ping was not overjoyed, Huang Jinbiao was a little disappointed and said, "This family is a large family in Yan, a native of Pingzhou. The family has been doing maritime business for generations and has a lot of money. Seeing that the Southern Dynasty has been prosperous over the years, I was envious and seemed to have the intention of returning to the south. These days, the Khitan gathered troops and horses, and exploited Youzhou and Pingzhou very much, so I was dissatisfied. According to his statement, how many Khitan soldiers and horses had gone south, because they had to pass by them, they all knew clearly."

Hearing this, Xu Ping's face calmed down and said, "If it's just news, people say it, just listen. After coming back, I came to me. There was a Wang Xuezhai, who was the supervisor who deployed the company's business and told him. I told you that the Khitan was the enemy's territory after all, and you can ask for some information. Don't do excessive things. You must know the severity and do not encourage others. In order to show loyalty to this dynasty, they will even make trouble. If they suffer, they will blame you."

Pingzhou belongs to Nanjing Road administratively, but is a relatively independent place in finance. In the past, Yunzhou was also of this nature. It was under the jurisdiction of Nanjing Road in administrative sequence, but it was financially independent. Later, it was promoted to Xijing and became a different path, so it was completely independent from Nanjing Road. The Khitan system had both their traditions and inherited from the Tang Dynasty. Some of them came from the Five Dynasties regimes, and later they learned from the Song Dynasty. Various systems were mixed, and even the Khitans themselves were not clear. Of course, the Song Dynasty was even more confused about many aspects. After Xu Ping returned to Beijing, he strengthened the intelligence work of neighboring countries and found a general idea, but many details were still unclear. For example, how the Khitan gathered troops, how to organize, how to gather, and how to supply food and grass, is now a mystery to the Song Dynasty. It is very likely that the Khitan did not have a unified system.

As I heard from Nanjing Xijin Prefecture, this winter, the Khitan gathered 260,000 troops from Zhongjing Road and Tokyo Road. In addition, the original 100,000 troops in front of the mountain, a total of about 400,000 soldiers were fighting against the Song Dynasty's imperial guards on Hebei Road in front of the mountain. When the war broke out, the Song Dynasty and Hedong Road were about 100,000 people to invest, so the Khitan could only rely on the army directly under the royal court to deal with it.

The 260,000 troops in Xindianji came from, whether they were Khitans, Xi people, or Jurchens. Moreover, judging from the information they heard, Yelu Chongyuan, who was in charge of mountain affairs, seemed to have no idea. As the commander in front of him, he also only knew that 260,000 people would come, and the others were blinded.

After sorting out his thoughts for a while, Xu Ping asked Huang Jinbiao: "Did you hear that how many soldiers gathered in front of the mountain this winter? Which tribes come from? When will they gather?"

Huang Jinbiao smiled and said, "Those barbarians are confused about their birds and do things, so how could they understand so clearly! I heard that the man said that now about 70,000 to 80,000 people have passed Pingzhou, and there are still 20,000 to 30,000 people from behind. Other people, no one knows when or where to come. Now, there are about 30,000 to 40,000 Khitans, and the rest are all Xi people. According to the man's words, it seems that he wants to collect many people from Tokyo Road, and most of them also need to collect Jurchen tribes."

Xu Ping nodded. The Jurchen tribe was semi-independent in the Khitan. It was a little stable in recent years. There were rebellions from time to time in the past few years. After the rise of the Khitan, the first ones to deal with the Xi tribes of the same language and the same race, and used both to suppress and pacify, and finally it was finally considered to be recaptured. Although there is still the Xi king's mansion, the military and political affairs have been completely controlled by the Khitan, and they are basically their own people. Then they deal with the Bohai people and the Jurchen people in Tokyo. After so many years of conquest, it seems that it has been effective. Using the Jurchen people on the front line against the Song Dynasty can be said to be a coexistence of opportunities and risks for the Khitan. If it is used well, there are many new forces, and if it is not used well, maybe these Jurchen soldiers and horses gathered together will be reversed.

After thinking about it, Xu Ping felt that the Khitan had another intention. It might not be that the Song army was under too much pressure this year. The Khitan was afraid of sending heavy troops to the front line of Youzhou, and the strength of the rear was empty. The Jurchen tribe took the opportunity to rebel. They simply took the opportunity to remove the firewood from the bottom of the pot and pointed their troops to the front line first. While intimidating the Song army, the Khitan army monitored from the side, killing two birds with one stone.

The empire had the upper hand on the outside, and internal contradictions could be suppressed and seemed to be prosperous. Once the external environment changes and the pressure increases, various internal contradictions would erupt. External worries would intensify internal strife, and internal strife would trigger external worries, and both the inside and the outside were always complementary. As the pressure on the Song army gradually increased, the Khitan would face these problems more and more.

Xu Ping asked Huang Jinbiao again about the news that he had heard, and gave a rough estimate of the pressure facing the Khitan.

The troops on the Shangjing Road were the last reserve army of the Khitan royal court, and they did not easily call the group. This time, in order to cope with the military pressure of the Song army, people were mainly from Zhongjing Road and Tokyo Road in front of the mountain, mainly from the Xi people and the Jurchens. Anyway, Xu Ping meant that the Song Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line, so the Khitan should have a considerable amount of troops confrontation, otherwise they would have to fight. Then the Khitans would just pile up soldiers on the front line. As for whether these soldiers were easy to use, they were actually not that important, and they would not fight anyway.

After figuring this out, Xu Ping understood that a few days ago, the Khitan reported to the front to the Zhenwu Army in the Song Dynasty, and then concentrated troops there, and ordered troops from various tribes in the north of the Lingbei region. It was nothing more than the same path as in the mountain, allowing the tribes that depended on him to send troops, accumulate numbers on the front line, and prevent the war from breaking out.

The purpose of targeting the troops and horses of tribes affiliated with foreign tribes, rather than the Khitan tribe, is of course to preserve their strength. These affiliated tribes probably have to bring their own food and grass, and they are considered to have brought their own dry food to work for the Khitan. The Khitans behind them did not delay production, but also saved the materials consumed by the army, which killed more than one kill. Confronting Song, consuming the power of other small tribes, making it easier for Khitan to control, and achieving military balance with the border of the Song Dynasty.
Chapter completed!